So today I have my presentation.  I hope that it will go ok.  I don't particularly feel like looking like an idiot.  There isn't too much of a possibility of that, but still.  I'm probably not completely prepared, in that I would have to spend about 24 hours to be really really prepared for this by memorizing Peter's book or something.  But I can't ( Read more... )

I've managed to get my list down to 5 schools!  I'm not sure how much I want to apply to them right now, but I'm feeling a little bit excited about it all.  Most of them are in the midwest.  One is in New York, and one is in Colorado, although I'm not sure if I want to go there.  I'm so excited that I've actually gotten somewhere useful on this ( Read more... )

The end of the summer, that is.  This summer has gone by at both fast and slow paces.  Some days went so quickly, I didn't know what hit me.  Other days went so slowly, I thought that they'd never end (like that one day I was at Argonne and didn't get back until about 12:15).  But all in all it has been a normal paced summer.  Although I'm still ( Read more... )

I just saw An Inconvenient Truth today. I thought that it was a good movie overall. Some of it didn't fit, but it got the point across. So if you haven't seen it yet, go see it. It's worth seeing once. If you don't, at least look at the website, www.climatecrisis.org.

So I went in to housing today at lunch and within five minutes they had me set up to move into a single. Why couldn't they just do that earlier this week? Ah, well, they're only human and they have a lot on their hands. So I left work early this afternoon so that I could move into my new room. It makes me smile to walk up here because it's my ( Read more... )

So they told me to stay where I am. And then a girl moved in today. So I'm now in a double without air conditioning. I'm still working with housing and hoping that they will help work this through so that I can stay on campus in my own room. It's not so much a desire to get away from people as a desire for a room that I can retreat to and be ( Read more... )

God I had housing everywhere!!!! I just found out that instead of getting the single that I was told I would receive, that I am moving into a double on Sunday. But I'm at the point where I am ready to refuse to move because I was promised a single. I really want to kill someone right now for this. I called housing twice and e-mailed both ( Read more... )

One should never watch a romance when feeling lonely. It just makes one realize all of the happy things that they are missing. I just finished watching The Family Stone. It's good, but depressing in a number of ways and I'm not sure if the relationships are plausible. But whatever, it's entertainment ( Read more... )

I've been at Notre Dame for almost a week now. Well, I got here on Monday. It was ghastly hot on Monday and moving in was a pain. But I'm here and settled in. I do have to move again in two weeks, but into an air conditioned dorm! The first few days have been filled mostly with talking. Tuesday we did logistical stuff for most of the day and ( Read more... )

I've been home for a week now. I didn't expect anyone else to be home though. I do hope that some of my Madtown friends are planning on being here in the next week and a half though 'cause I'm running out of fun things to do. I slept in really late today and having been working on my computer ever since. I decided that now is the time to backup ( Read more... )